[Jacob, John J.]:

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A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE CAPT. MICHAEL CRESAP. First edition of this biography of Captain Cresap, defending him against charges that he slaughtered Indians before the beginning of the Revolutionary War. In particular, Cresap became infamous in the case of the Indian, Logan, and the murder of his defenseless family in 1774. "This biography of Cresap was written to refute Jefferson's account in Notes on Virginia....The immediate occasion for this now rare book, written by the revolutionary officer, later clergyman, who had married Cresap's widow, was the reopening of old sores by [Joseph] Doddridge in his then recently published Notes [on the Settlement and Indian Wars, of the Western Parts of Virginia & Pennsylvania, from the Year 1763 until the Year 1783 Inclusive] of 1824. The defense is complete and the biography is of absorbing interest" - Streeter.Each copy of this edition we have handled features largely identical contemporary manuscript annotations and corrections to the text, suggesting that they are made in the hand of the author or publisher. The Streeter copy was bought by Sessler for $650 in 1968.

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